Gramophone-stand.



No. 684,496. Patented 001. I5, I90l.

E. W. CHANT.

(Application filed Nov. 20, 1899.)

(No Model.)

Q W WM $56M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD IVILSON CHANT, OF SHREWTON, ENGLAND.

GRAMOPHONE-STAND.

SFEGIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent N0. 684,496, dated October 15, 1901.

Application filed November 20, I899. erial No. '737 680-i. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD WILSON CHANT, a subjectof the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Shrewton, in the county of Wilts, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gramophone-Stands, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in gramophone-stands, and has for its object to provide a portable,simple, and inexpensive folding stand for use with gramophones and similar sound-recording instruments,

which shall greatly increase the volume and intensity of the sound produced by such instruments.

In carrying my invention into practice I provide a square or other shaped platform having a central opening therein and 'a number of circular or other recesses in its surface. To two sides of the said platform are hinged two flaps or folding supports whose lower edges are preferably curved, so that when the said supports are opened out and placed upon a table or the like the lower edges of such supports will come into contact with the table, forinstance,at four points. Hinged stays are pivoted to the under side of the platform for the purpose of supporting the before-mentioned folding flaps or supports in their open position. Openings are provided in the said folding flaps or supports, through which the joints of the said hinged stays partially project in order that the folding flaps or supports may lie as close as possible upon the under side of the platform when the former are folded beneath the latter. A curved metal or other bridge spans the opening in the platform, to the center of which bridge a catch is pivoted for the purpose of securing the folding flaps or supports in their folded position. In lieu of this central catch end catches may be pivoted or hinged to the under side of the platform to effect a similar purpose.

In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the stand in its open position; Fig. 2, an end ele vational View thereof; Fig. 3, a plan view of the stand, while Fig. i is a view of a detail.

Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the Various figures, a indicates the platform, and b the central opening therein, which may be of any suitable shape and size. I

0- represents the two folding supports,which are hinged to the platform at at c. The folding supports have recesses o in the lower edges, so that when the stand is placed on a table or the like the said supports will come in contact with the former at four points 0 cl represents the stays for maintaining the hinged supports (3 in their open or extended position, such stays being pivoted at one end to the under side of the platform a, as at 01, While they are hingedly jointed about midway of their length, as at 61 so that when the stand is to be folded such stays can be caused to lie fiat against the under side of the platform, openings 0 being provided in the folding supports 0' in order that the joints of the said stays may project somewhat through same when the supports are in the folded position.

e represents a downwardly-curved metal bridge to the center of which a catch f is piv oted for the purpose of securing the folding supports 0 in their closed position. In lieu of this central catch, end catches (not shown) may be pivoted or hinged to the under side of the platform a to efiect the foregoing purpose.

What I claim as my invention, and desire a to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In stands or sound-boards for gramophones, the combination with a table having hinged folding side supports, a central opening, and hinged stays for supporting said side supports in their extended position and abridge for securing the hinged side supports in their folded position; of the curved lower edges of said hinged side supports whereby the lower edges of said side supports only contact with the supporting-surface at four points when in their opened-out position 5- and openings in said hinged side supports to let the joints of said hinged stays lie therein to enable the said side supports to be folded snugly up against the under side of the table, substantially as specified.

EDWARD WILSON CHANT} I do 

